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by marriedWpt 2325 days ago
This has everything to do with marketing, not hardware or OS or usability.

Just because someone is talented in CS, doesn't mean they can defend themselves from Marketing.

I imagine advanced users want full control over settings and programs. I recently needed to turn off signatures to get a compiler to work.

There doesn't seem to be a rational reason outside iOS compiling.
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CountSessine 2325 days ago
I wanted full control over settings and programs when I was 14. Decades later now, I want an environment that works and gets out of my way and gives me access to the tools I want to program with.
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webmobdev 2325 days ago
> I wanted full control over settings and programs when I was 14. Decades later now, I want an environment that works and gets out of my way and gives me access to the tools I want to program with.

Nice deflection. Who says you can't have both?

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CountSessine 2325 days ago
Sorry - I though he was being a bit juvenile and felt like being similarly dismissive was appropriate.

I regularly switch between MacOS, Windows, and desktop Linux both for work and for home; I love fiddling around with settings and configurations to get things to work, but only sometimes and only when it’s on my terms. The rest of the time I just want it to work, out of the box or off the install disk.

I’m always going to love tinkering with Arch from time to time, but then I get my work done on Fedora or similar.

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webmobdev 2325 days ago
Ok, I get what you meant. And I won't deny sometimes I too get frustrated when I can't find the driver for some hardware on Linux or have to download some source code and compile it.

But I will still never accept Apple's approach of total control and deciding for its user. Each of us have different needs and expectations from our computer. And there is no way, even with all the spying that Apple does, that it can provide a "perfect environment" for each of it users. It just isn't true and not possible. So restricting customisation, in the name of security but in reality to limit and control the user from making any changes without "contributing" to Apple's profit, is just bad for us consumers.

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